The diversity of behavior patterns can be attributed to the influences of both environment and genetics. Research in the field of behavioral genetics has made a step forward in understanding the field that deals with the study of the influence of heredity and environment on differences between individuals.

Scientists generally agree that genes influence human behavior. However, it is wrong to assume that our behavior is genetically determined. Genes influence behavior multifactorially, which would mean that many of them influence behavior, but each to a very small extent. The influence of the environment is so significant that it can affect the diversity of individuals from the same community. The influence of the environment cannot be generalized, it differs from community to community and includes the education of parents, their actions in upbringing and socio-economic status.

The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna Business School WU Executive Academy conducted research based on the connection between genes and entrepreneurship, and the results are important and similar in all countries where the research was conducted. According to research, if your parents are entrepreneurs, have their own company or just started a business, chances are high that you, as their children, will follow in those footsteps. The business path of your parents, as a role model, has a great influence on how you will look at your business future and in what way you will think about it. The results with twins are particularly interesting, they are raised by the same parents, grow in the same environment and one almost always followed the path of the parents. In the case of identical twins, the influence of genetics is greater than that of environment and upbringing.

In the Scandinavian countries, they have special databases for this as well, proving that genes influence at least 50 percent of business decisions and the path that is chosen.

Some scientists believe that they have discovered a gene that we inherit from our parents, which may be why individuals, carriers of that gene, have enviable business skills. It is a gene called MAOA-L, the so-called “warrior gene”, which makes people more inclined to take risky business moves, but only in cases where they are sure that they could bring them profit. Carriers of this gene have been found to perform better in financial decision-making since they have an enhanced ability to react appropriately in risky situations.

It is about probability, not certainty, because there is no gene for entrepreneurship like, for example, a gene that will determine the color of your eyes and other physical characteristics.